Come on Down!
Yes - we would love to see you
in Peck & Strong's car park at one of our bi-monthly collection
days. We, Sustainable Crediton's Waste Action Group (aka the Crediton WAGs!) will be there,
collecting your household plastic waste.
Those of you who have seen us
there, may think we are mad: delving into the dumpy bags of plastic
to fish out the few items that need to be sorted separately from
the bulk of the plastic you bring us. But we think it is worth it, to ensure
that as much as possible of Crediton's plastic waste is recycled
rather than going to landfill.
Over the last three years we
have collected more than 700 dumpy bags from 16 collections in
Crediton, Sandford and Cheriton Fitzpaine. With your help we have saved 11 tons of
plastic from going to landfill. Thank you.
Now we need your help to make
the lives of Crediton's WAGs (all volunteers) a bit
easier. Please can you keep the following in
mind, when collecting your plastic to recycle:
- if you are making a trip to the
Punchbowl or Ashley Recycling Centre with other items,
please take your plastic
with you rather than saving it for us
- if at all possible, please do not bring
your plastic down to Peck & Strong's the night
before our
collections.
Peck & Strong produce
delicious cakes, pies and tarts and do not wish vermin to be attracted to their
premises!
- our collections are for clean, plastic food, drink and household
(e.g. cleaning products/shampoo bottles) containers
- we also collect garden plastic pots and
trays
IMPORTANTLY,
please make sure all containers have been rinsed, and that you
do not include general
rubbish in with the
plastic.
If you have space at home,
please separate out black and brown plastic items from all the
other colours, including clear plastic. They all get recycled, but we sort the
black and brown into separate dumpy bags.
- we can now accept bubble
wrap. Please separate it from the rest of your
plastic.
- we are unable to accept cling film,
cellophane, and polystyrene.
- plastic milk bottles and plastic bags
should be recycled in your doorstep recycling box.
Dates for 2015 are Sat 10am to
1230pm on:
31 Jan, 28 Mar, 30 May, 25 Jul,
26 Sep & 28 Nov
Look our for our orange
leaflets with the details of our plastic collections for
2015. We'll be in Peck & Strong's car park
in 2015 - waiting for you to 'come on down' to continue
filling our dumpy bags with your waste household plastic
containers.
If you would like to know more,
have a specific query about our plastic collections, or wish to
become a Crediton WAG (we run other projects in Crediton you might
like to get involved with), please contact us by email at info@sustainablecrediton.org.uk.
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